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That's the way a good jazz artist works, in an effortless, unassuming manner, always injecting just the right kind of "kick" into the improvisation. Nearly all of Crosby's many Decca recording are done in this style, and they show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part...
...there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes to go on. Jack Kapp, for whom Bing makes Decca records, recalls that The Groaner's singing is so facile he recorded the complicated Ballad for Americans in four hours. The same song took Paul Robeson three weeks...
This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
...Southern Railway, helped start the boom, on Victor hillbilly records a dozen years ago. Now Victor's Bill Boyd, Columbia's Gene Autry, Bob Wills, Bonnie Blue Eyes and Patsy Montana sing to the nation the songs that Texas makes. And the Kapp brothers, who run Decca, see to it that Bing Crosby croons the Texas sellers...
...RELEASES. Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, and Lead Belly, the great Negro singer with a questionable past, will be featured at a dance at Cantabridgia Hall tonight. This is a swell opportunity to hear Bobby in an atmosphere more congenial to him than what the Versailles has to offer... DECCA has just released an album entitled "Gems of Jazz." It consists of a number of records made in this country several years ago for release in England. Consequently, most of them will be quite welcome to collectors now. Included in the album are two of Mildred Bailey's best couplings: Honeysuckle...